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November/December, 2019 Volume 47, No. 3
OUR PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By John Masterjohn ARSCE Invites You...
We are back from Ireland, and still trying to catch Wednesday up on our sleep—as we’re having some jet lag. We December 11th, 2019 saw some great parks and gardens, wonderful CHRISTMAS West Seattle Golf Course churches, and a large number of castles and pubs. WSome of the castles are still livable, but they’re used Registration form on page 12 primarily as tourist attractions now. Most were ruins, PARTY! not surprising considering some were built back in the 12th century. It is so great to see things built that long ago, and most of them are still standing. Now the craziest thing I did was kiss the Blarney Stone, where you must lay on your back and hang YOUR PENSION NEWS out over the edge of the castle with two guys holding By Lou Walter, Retired Employee, you. It was different. I’m not sure if it brought me Member of the Seattle City any eloquence (that’s the supposed promise), but Employees’ Retirement System I’m sure the two cab drivers we hired had kissed it! We never walked so much as we did in Ireland—it seemed like it was always a long walk to the castles or the great bluffs we visited. When We Ask for Miracles I couldn’t believe how much Ireland reminded me of Washington, except for the evergreen trees that As we enter into the magical holiday season, we find the importance were scarce there. The only bad thing about this of family and friends and our love for one another is a cause for celebration trip is now Karen wants me to start building her some of the human spirit. That spirit of Thanksgiving and Christmas is a time dry stack rock walls. That’s not going to happen—it for miracles, and we hope this will touch every one of us. I am departing sounds like too much work. Besides, she’s the one from my usual article covering finances and fiduciary responsibilities to with Irish heritage, not me. talk about a matter of a personal nature. Now some information about the retirement On a Saturday in late September, I received news that a dear friend had system. In the month of July 2019, 28 members suffered an aneurysm while giving a talk at an Al-Anon/AA conference retired from the City and eight members removed in Amarillo, Texas. She’s currently with her family in Dallas, far from their money. her home in Riverside, California. The aneurysm has caused severe The current funding status level is at 68.2%. damage to her brain. The prognosis is not good. My dear friend’s The funding ratio increased from 2014-2018 and breathing requires assistance and she is in a coma. As we become decreased slightly in 2019 due to new assumptions older, we realize how fragile and precious life has become...and that our adopted from the experience study and a low year of tomorrows are not promised to anyone. investment returns in 2018. SCERS plans on being Her husband had said that it will take a miracle to bring her back to fully funded by 2042, so hang in there youngsters! us. So thousands of friends are setting aside some time to pray for her The annual report will be published on the SCERS recovery—for that miracle that is so desperately needed for our friend. website, and copies will be available to members in I know many families have been in a similar situation, hoping that what the SCERS reception area. has affected their loved one can be reversed. Sometimes miracles have been granted and people rejoice, and sometimes the answers manifest Another possible issue: there was a report from themselves in very different ways. one of our members who found some mistakes on her deferred compensation plan. So, we all need to Miracles, in general, can be “wonders” that cannot be explained check our accounts periodically. and they are contrary to what we may believe or were taught about nature or science. Happy Holidays to All! To ask for a miracle only requires that we believe and have faith in John Contact Mr. Masterjohn at [email protected] the possibility that it can happen. Sometimes the miracle will have more of an effect on those who are asking for the miracle because they have faith in the possibilities of miracles. A friend, whose young son had contracted a fatal disease, shared with me that his prayers for the healing of his son didn’t provide a cure Inside this Issue or save his son, but they did have a profound affect his life. He became sober and grew closer to his wife and his other children. He became more active in his union, community, and church. The miracle he Page 2: 2020 Enrollment/Retiree Medical Benefits received saved his life...I know that my life was also saved and changed Page 3: The Film Guy by the simple act of thoughts or prayers for someone other than myself. Page 5: Fall Luncheon Review in Photos I’d like to thank you for your indulgence and patience as I expressed Page 7: Duffer’s Corner my feelings regarding this very dear friend. In closing, I wish everyone a Page 8: Welcome New Members! joyous and grateful Thanksgiving; a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy Page 12: Christmas Luncheon Registration Form New Year. Thank You All! Page 2 — ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019
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Retiree Medical Benefits Monday, Annual Enrollment for 2020: November 11th, 2019 November 4-22, 2019
Annual enrollment for 2020 retiree medical benefits will be November 4 – November 22, 2019. For retirees currently enrolled in a retiree medical Essential Telephone Numbers plan, the Benefits Unit mailed benefit packets with 2020 plan summaries and rates to homes at And Web Addresses the end of October. The packets also included the annual notices that the City is required by law to ARSCE: 425.443.3799 distribute. A copy of the packet is available on the (Change of Address/Membership Questions) Benefits Unit website at http://www.seattle.gov/ Email: [email protected] Website: www.arsce.org personnel/benefits/home.asp in the Retirement Information section. Mayor’s Office for Senior Citizens: 206.684.0500 Please check your mailbox for your enrollment (Information on available programs/services) packet. (Retirees who are not currently enrolled in a Email: [email protected] City retiree medical plan will not receive a packet.) If Website: www.seattle.gov/seniors you want to make changes or if you have questions, please contact the Benefits Unit at (206) 615-1340 Personnel Department: 206.615.1340 or email [email protected]. (Benefits) Email: [email protected] Changes for 2020 must be received or postmarked Website: www.seattle.gov/Personnel/ by November 22, 2019. Please also note that administration of the retiree Retirement Office: 206.386.1293 or medical plans has moved from the Retirement 1.877.865.0079 Office (SCERS) to the Benefits Unit of the Seattle (Retirement Checks/Health & Dental Benefits/General Department of Human Resources (SDHR) in 2018. If Questions/Change of Address/Tax Withholding) Email: [email protected] you have questions about your medical plan, please Website: www.seattle.gov/retirement contact the Benefits Unit via email (Benefits.Unit@ seattle.gov) or call (206) 615-1340.
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1) Owner and Publisher: Active & Retired Seattle City Employees Address: P.O. Box 75385 Seattle, WA 98175-0385 2) Title of Publication: ARSCE News 3) Frequency of issues: Six (6) issues each year. 4) John Masterjohn, President Edie Jorgensen, Vice President Merle Overland, Temp. Recording Secretary Victoria Troisi, Financial Secretary Elizabeth Paschke, Treasurer Lee Sattler, Editor 5) Bondholders, Mortgages, and Security Holders: None 6) The Association of Retired Seattle City Employees, d/b/a Active & Retired Seattle City Employees (ARSCE), is a non-profit Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 3, organization for educational purposes according to section 2019, at 2:00am. At this time, we “fall back” in the fall by 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible. setting clocks back one hour (i.e., gaining one hour). ARSCE annual dues are $15.00 (July 1-June 30). Opinions stated by various writers are their own and do not necessarily Note: Since the time changes at 2:00am, we generally reflect the policy of ARSCE. change our clocks before bed on Saturday. Contact us at www.arsce.org Or telephone us at 425.443.3799 ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019 — Page 3
The Film Guy acted in more than 100 films, including five with Wontner in the Some Favorites on DVD 1930s). The pair’s final Sherlock Holmes film was the 1937 Silver By Jim Mohundro Blaze, based on Conan Doyle’s short story The Adventure of the Silver Blaze and remembered by Holmes and film aficionados for this dialog: “Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): ‘Is there any other Correction: Edgar Bergen had Charlie McCarthy, Lyndon Johnson point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ Holmes: had Eugene McCarthy, Sean Spicer had Melissa McCarthy, ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ Gregory: and I had it wrong in my recent column. By this time most ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ Holmes: ‘That was the politicians are starting to sound all too much alike to me. curious incident.’” It was “Tail-Gunner” Joe McCarthy, the Wisconsin Senator, who could claim discredit for the “Red Scare” and the Blacklist Hammett and Chandler’s knights errant of the 1930s through and who drew Edward R. Murrow’s very public wrath in the 1950s have influenced a couple of generations of fictional Goodnight and Good Luck. Come to think of it, Eugene private investigators. Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer hews most McCarthy reminds me a bit, just a little bit, of Lew Ayres in closely to the model, appearing in more than 18 novels and Harper All Quiet on the Western Front. short stories. Paul Newman is Archer in (1966), based on MacDonald’s first novel The Moving Target (renamed to respond to Newman’s superstition about The Eyes Have It his recent movie hits with “H” titles}, and followed by The Drowning Pool (1975), based on the second Lew There are cops and cops, the real ones and the cops Archer novel. The characters and their stories work of film and other fiction, and in there are those of no well in contemporary Southern California settings and government jurisdiction, the dilettantes, the amateur Newman is effective as the loner private detective. crime solvers like Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey, Mickey Spillane’s first novel I, the Jury (1947) brings Miss Marple, and more than a few antique dealers, cab a new overt sex, violence, and revenge motive to the drivers, and many others who somehow stumble onto genre and introduces Mike Hammer, an investigator the odd corpse and keep doing that in book after book who shoots first and doesn’t always ask questions later. and film after film, and these men, women and even Spillane’s Hammer tales enjoy little critical success, youngsters (Nancy Drew, Booth Tarkington’s Penrod but are huge hits in the marketplace. Ralph Meeker and Sam) are the stuff of entertainment for many us, is a convincing Hammer in Director Robert Aldrich’s in spite of some obvious grim realities. 1955 Kiss Me, Deadly, a solid thriller that combines Auguste Dupin is an amateur crime solver who radioactivity, Ernest Laszlo’s cinematography, and is not a member or agent of the police, but earns a supporting cast that includes Albert Dekker, Paul pride of place as the investigator in what is often Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Cloris Leachman in her considered the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe’s first credited part. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), but it’s Out of the Past (1947) is considered a classic in really with the advent of Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle’s most film noir lists. Robert Mitchum’s Jeff Bailey, gas “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes that a widely pump jockey and former investigator, is reluctantly accepted figure becomes the model of the fictional drafted to work with and against actors Jane Greer, Kirk private investigator. Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, and Steve Raymond Chandler, in his 1944 essay, The Brodie and they are fortunate in their Director Jacques Simple Art of Murder, calls murder the frustration Tourneu (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The of an individual, an understatement from a qualified Leopard Man, and Experiment Perilous). wordsmith. He and a couple of other writers, ‘Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown’ and thereby hangs notably former private detective Dashiell Hammett 1930’s detective Jake Gittes’s tale in Roman Polanski’s and former lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner, build their Chinatown Black Mask 1974 . Chandler or MacDonald could have reputations in 1930s “pulp” fiction like , written this one. Jack Nicholson, as Gittes, is the one started by drama critic George Jean Nathan and guy who can handle gangsters, political corruption, journalist H. L. Mencken. a couple of very interesting dames, or thinks he can, Hammett, Chandler, Gardner and a few others and John Huston is a baron of commerce who seems formulated and perpetuated the myth/truth of the eerily contemporary. Neither Huston nor co-star Faye private investigator who travels a few miles on the Dunaway make it easy for Jake. This color film is as bottle in his desk drawer, a dame or two, and a gat. In noir as it needs to be. the short stories and, later, novels, Chandler’s Philip Los Angeles, in its heat and culture and welcome Marlowe, Hammett’s Sam Spade and Continental Op, to all comers, is the epicenter for tough guy film and Gardner’s Donald Lam and Bertha Cool manage settings, but Gene Hackman as Harry Moseby, PI, to hold western civilization together on not much presented with a puzzle to unravel, travels to a New more than 25 dollars a day, and sufficient aspirin for Mexico film location and Florida in Night Moves, this hangovers and blackjacking. sometimes overlooked 1975 gem directed by Arthur Sherlock Holmes appears on film as early as Penn (Bonnie and Clyde). 1900, and many times thereafter, and I, and perhaps Steve Martin darkens his trademark white hair to not a few others, still consider Basil Rathbone the ply his trade as redoubtable shamus Rigby Reardon quintessential Holmes, complete with accessory pipe, in Carl Reiner’s 1982 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. violin, deerstalker hat and estimable companion, Famous faces abound and Editor Bud Molin’s work is Doctor John H. Watson (the inimitable Nigel Bruce in cut out for him by himself. the Rathbone films). A man of peace, Watson has, however, been known to carry a Webley revolver in Here’s a bonus, but without subtitles or closed one of his capacious greatcoat pockets from time to captioning. Female private investigators are not rare time. While it’s quite easy to choose a solid example in life, but are rare in movies. Kathleen Turner, often V. I. from the 14-film Rathbone/Bruce series, here are a larger than life in her roles, stars as the PI in Warshawski couple of earlier, notable films: (1991), based on Sara Paretsky’s second novel Deadlock. Although there are no film sequels, William Gillette is the consulting detective in his Sherlock Holmes Paretsky continues as a successful author with 22 1899 play , written and produced by Warshawski stories to date. permission of Doyle, and follows up with the 1916 screen version. Although Gillette wrote and acted These films have subtitles in English or “close captioning” in many other plays, he is always associated with for the hearing impaired, and may be around town at Holmes, whom he played on stage more than 1,300 video stores (there are just two in Seattle at this time) times, and to have introduced Holmes’s curved pipe that carry decent inventories of the classics, but the films to the character. This silent film was considered “lost” may also be available with subtitles or close captioning until a good print was found in France in 2014 and from the Seattle Public Library and other local libraries, restored in 2015. cable or satellite, or from “streaming” resources such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Video on Demand and the Arthur Wontner is Holmes to Ian Fleming’s Watson (Fleming Criterion Channel. was not the author, but a long-time Australian character actor who You’ll find Mr. Mohundro at [email protected] Page 4 — ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019
as well. All these people have to listen to us, because we live Ramblin’ Roads in the districts they represent and we vote for or against them By Alan Brittenham in every election, if we’re holding up our end of the Citizenship Agreement. And let’s not forget, at the national level, we have both a U. S. It’s Over House member and a Senator who have the same responsibility to listen to us and respond to our concerns when we take the time to express them. Or, you can go to the top of the line and The light bulb went on the other day, and I got hit with the work our way back down. That starts with the President and obvious stick, and it felt good! Vice-President, of course, but you could extend that down to the As anybody who pays any attention whatsoever to the news - or Cabinet members if you’re a glutton for punishment. what passes for it these days - knows, the airwaves and the internet So, as a citizen, you have many different people who would are full of arguments, disagreement, and complaints. The finer like to hear what you think about any issue on their plate, and, if points of axe-grinding, you let them, will gladly finger-pointing, name- send you newsletters calling and blaming along with never-ending have been raised to new requests for donations heights as what seems and invite you to their like half the population public events, so you can takes on the other half talk to them in person in a continuing struggle (don’t hold your breath to come out on top, on that one). even though nobody really knows what that Everyone else can go means. away. I don’t need to discuss political issues Well, here’s a news with my cousins, my flash for you: The last co-workers, strangers undecided voter, a at the bus stop, people young woman in Peoria, standing in line at the Kansas, finally made grocery store, or the up her mind once and beggar on the street for all on April 1, 2018! corner. I certainly don’t That means there is need to bother with nobody left to convince trolls on Facebook. I can on any issue! smile and be pleasant, Let your mind open say, “Nice day, huh?”, or, and let the ramifications “How about those M’s?”, of this new reality sink and it doesn’t matter if in. We’re done! We the person I’m talking to don’t have to fight is wearing a Confederate anymore, about anything! It has all been decided, and there’s Flag T-shirt or one that says Black Lives Matter, because I don’t nothing left to talk about until the next election, which is the only want to talk about their causes or hear their opinions. place where we can exercise our right as a citizen in a way that If someone on the street comes up with a petition for actually does something. We can vote. something I would like to see adopted, I can sign it, but that’s all. In the meantime, we can just shut the hell up, all of us. We No, you don’t get any money, and no, I don’t want to hear about it. don’t need to talk about politics anymore, there’s no need. I I can sympathize if you’re all worked up about this or that cause already know who I’m going to vote for, and I don’t care who you or problem, but, in the words of an old song by Ten Years After, pick, that’s entirely your business, which means it’s none of mine. “Don’t ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that Of course, stuff will continue to happen, and people will you want me to.” Address your complaints and your suggestions react to it, as usual. I’m not suggesting we give up our rights as to the only ones who can actually do something about it, your own citizens to tell the government what we expect from them at any representative. Why are you wasting your breath on the rest of us? and every opportunity that presents itself. Far be it from me to “But, but but”, you say, “Look at those other guys! Look at all even suggest that. What I do suggest, though, is that we stop and the money they’re spending! We have to match or beat them in consider who we should be talking to about issues that come up, order to win the election! If you don’t give big now, we will lose!” and who we should not bother with. To that I ask only one simple question: How do you measure the Every one of us, at least the ones that aren’t currently homeless, effectiveness of all that spending? has a representative who is elected to represent us. We have City As to that, I think – but there I go again, don’t I? Trying to slip council members we can talk to, and a Mayor, if we live in town. in my opinion when it really doesn’t matter, does it? Hey, how We have a County Council, and an Executive, and of course we about those Seahawks? They gonna be great this year, or what? have a State Representative, along with a Senator, and a Governor
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ARSCE’s FALL LUNCHEON
retirement Guest Speaker: Eli Mizrahi, President, Pacific Group Advisors Eli entertained us and educated us with humor planning and great advise on how to manage College Funds for Grandkids, Leaving Money to Heirs, and he Pizza & Planning Party! explained various kinds of Trusts. We had a good time and learned some very valuable information. Review in Photos
ARSCE Invites You to Join Us for the Annual Christmas Party Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 at the West Seattle Golf Course CHRISTMAS Registration form on page 12 PARTY! Page 6 — ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019
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n This person, male or female, will take the minutes at our monthly ARSCE Board meetings and luncheons. n Next, you’ll transcribe the minutes and email them to all Board members, along with an agenda for the upcoming meeting. n The Recording Secretary receives a small monthly stipend.
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Stillaguamish, and Suiattle tribes Duffer’s Corner say, but actually formed into a tribe consisting of members of the By Joe Matthias Lummi, Muckleshoot, Port Madison, and Puyallup tribes who refused to move to the new reservation lands in order to stay close to their traditional Here First, Here Still lands and the responsibilities to their lore and their gods that that There are, according to govern- entailed, and that may be a sticking ment records, twenty-nine recognized point in their quest for recognition. Indian tribes in Washington State. Of Perhaps, and this is just a these, four are east of the Cascades. Duffer’s thoughts, if they renamed An additional eight are mostly along themselves the Duwamish the Washington coast and up the Confederated Tribes, it might help. headwaters of the Columbia River and After all, Tulalip is a conglomerate of down the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The seven tribes, none of which is named remaining seventeen are along the waters Tulalip, officially, and immediately of Puget Sound. Eleven of these are on the received recognition as a sovereign east side, stretching from Anacortes down nation. The Confederated Tribes and the I-5 corridor to Olympia. Bands of the Yakama Reservation is a As I wrote in a previous article, these conglomerate of not only the Yakama tribes lived pretty much in harmony tribe, but also six other tribes, most with nature and each other for ages on of which aren’t otherwise federally end. They lived much the same, tribe to recognized. The Confederated Tribes of tribe. They hunted and fished the same the Colville Reservation have, including necessities. Though established in given the Colville, an additional eleven tribes, areas of the inland waters they were mostly unrecognized, umbrellaed under nomadic to a degree and often interacted their recognized status. The Tribes of with one another. They traded with tribes the Chehalis Reservation is composed of on the east side of the Cascades for items Duwamish Tribe five tribes of which the Chehalis is one. otherwise unattainable. They developed Why not the Duwamish, being a blend their own language. Salish, which, though of four tribes, enjoy that same already different from their own unique tongues, established track toward recognition? was understood by all tribes on literally Just an old Duffer’s ramblings, for what both sides of the Cascades making trade, it’s worth. commerce and interaction possible. The Tulalip Confederated Tribes is Then came the settlers, and nothing a reservation north of Everett. It was was the same ever again. Eventually, from established to include the Duwamish, the sheer volume of people moving to the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Pacific Northwest, problems arose, mostly Samish, and Stillaguamish tribes under over land use. This led to a few serious one banner, and many of those tribal confrontations, and eventually to the peoples do live and relate there. All of signing of treaties which opened lands to Lummi Tribe these tribes, save the Duwamish and homesteading previously unattainable, and Snohomish tribes, also have other lands established reservations for the existing designated as reservations for their tribes where they would presumably live peoples. Several of the tribes in the other in peace according to their own ways. The confederated groups mentioned above Treaty of Point Elliot covered tribes in the also have other lands allocated to their inland waters of Puget Sound. Other treaties specific tribes. covered other parts of the Washington Today most tribes have established Territory. Though well-worded, and most their own internal governments, their likely of the best intentions, things didn’t own police forces, their own methods of turn as well as it should have for those here helping their peoples over and above that first. provided from the Federal Government When the Treaty of Point Elliot was via treaty. They have learned that there is strength in numbers and have combined signed in 1855, lands were allocated for Muckleshoot Tribe reservations for most of the tribes, but their resources and talents in petitioning not all. The Lower Skagit tribe, though a Congress for the rights and material items community unto themselves, was included promised in the treaties their forefathers with the Swinomish on the Swinomish signed, and to assist those in need of Reservation where they abide today. acquiring the recognition they deserve. Tulalip was created as a conglomerate of And they work hard to ensure their several tribes, which I’ll touch on later. lore and ancient beliefs are not forgotten. The Snohomish were promised lands for a As they have, over the years, as have we reservation, but later denied and deemed all, evolved away from the belief in the not an indigenous tribe when the treaty existence of the gods of their forefathers, was ratified by congress in 1859. The those very gods, beliefs, and wisdoms Duwamish were likewise denied recognition Tulalip Tribe are none the less important to remember as a sovereign nation, though referred to in and understand, for they dictate where the treaty by name. they, and we, are going as a people in The Snohomish today have a board the future. The past does talk, is full of of directors and continue to fight for wisdom and learning if you look for it, sovereign status while utilizing the Tulalip and it is in our interests, more it is our Consolidated Tribes reservation for responsibility, to listen. most of their members. Though lacking So, take some time and learn a little recognition, they are extremely active in about the people who were here first, both community affairs and native lore and their customs, and their history. Go to traditions. a powwow and experience their culture The Duwamish, though listed in the first hand. I’ve been to a few and they Treaty of Point Elliot, are not a sovereign Colville Tribe are well worth the time. tribe unto themselves, such as the Duffer, out. Page 8 — ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019
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Peter Tenerelli, SCL In memory of Gerry Walin, SED 1976, and In memory of Earle Willey, SCL
In Memory Note: Names with asterisk (*) were ARSCE members
John E. Arnberg Walter W. Cooper*, SCL Linda G. Franklin Momoko Kido Fred A. Pruitt, SPU Lenora Jorstad Stoehr* Engineering Retired: 06/1981 Human Services Age: 93 Age: 66 Beneficiary Age: 96 Age: 94 Age: 71 Died: 2/28/2019 Died: 7/19/2019 Age: 89 Died: 7/3/2019 Died: 7/12/2019 Died: 11/8/2018 Bonnie K. King, Police Harold G. Purkhiser Died: 12/26/2018 Lloyd D. Ashford Patricia Catherine Coupens* John Wesley Gay III Age: 74 Age: 95 James R. Sullinger Personnel/Temp Services Beneficiary SCL Died: 7/15/2019 Died: 5/15/2019 Seattle Center Age: 82 Age: 95 Age: 55 Bruce A. Kleier, IT Gerald D. Radtke, SCL Age: 83 Died: 7/7/2018 Died: 7/22/2019 Died: 2/1/2019 Age: 57 Age: 70 Died: 5/7/2019 Judith E. Batinchok, IT Edwin J. Damron, SPU Alfred Geiger Died: 12/16/2018 Died: 2/21/2019 Mariah Sutherland Age: 72 Age: 68 Age: 73 William Kravchuk Arthur A. Reid Library Died: 4/6/2018 Died: 9/3/2019 Died: 1/5/2018 SDOT Personnel/Temp Services Age: 72 Philip M. Benedict, SCL Andre R. Daniel , Parks Marla L. Grayson-James Age: 76 Age: 75 Died: 7/26/2019 Age: 87 Age: 65 Age: 74 Died: 12/11/2018 Died: 8/3/2019 Simoni K. Teulilo, SPU Died: 9/24/2018 Died: 6/7/2019 Died: 3/25/2019 Marilyn L. Kunz*, SCL Gary B. Reid, SDOT Age: 62 Janet Suzanne Blessing Irene S. David, SDOT Ethel S. Hadley Retired: 01/2011 Age: 71 Died: 4/30/2019 Seattle Center Age: 66 Age: 97 Age: 84 Died: 8/28/2019 Charlotte B. Thornquist Age: 58 Died: 4/3/2018 Died: 12/26/2018 Died: 4/19/2019 Clay Abon Robertson Age: 98 Died: 3/2/2018 Valda Jean Delong, Water Walter J. Harrison*, SCL Helene Kuusela Seattle Center Died: 1/6/2019 Arlean M. Bossert* Age: 72 Retired: 01/1989 Age: 99 Age: 58 Frances H. Tracy* Beneficiary Died: 3/22/2019 Age: 90 Died: 8/27/2019 Died: 2/22/2019 Health Age: 89 Died: 8/22/2019 Robert L. Dudley, Jr.*, SCL Bertha Lenore Labrant Edythe Lucile Rose Retired: 03/1990 Died: 4/16/2019 Retired: 12/1989 Roy E. Hart*, SCL Age: 92 Age: 98 Age: 93 Philip J. Burke Age: 85 Retired: 05/2004 Died: 2/14/2019 Died: 12/16/2018 Died: 12/28/2018 Age: 87 Died: 5/19/2019 Age: 92 Larry McCoy, SDOT Scott Charles Ross, SCL Michael P. Turnsen Died: 9/17/2018 (Correction to former post, Died: 5/5/2019 Age: 73 Age: 58 SPU some information omitted) Loraine Chatelain Gerald K. Hauge* Died: 8/18/2018 Died: 4/24/2019 Age: 72 Personnel/Temp Services Betty Jean Eldridge Library Died: 8/8/2019 Sharon A. Mcintyre, SPU Marie Rugg Age: 91 Age: 91 Retired: 01/2004 Age: 76 Age: 97 William J. Vanatta Died: 2/21/2019 Died: 2/22/2019 Age: 71 Died: 8/1/2019 Died: 7/5/2019 SDOT Lennon Wenkuei Cheng Jovita I. Estacio*, SPU Died: 12/17/2018 Age: 74 Musheer Muied Bryan C. Scott, SCL SDOT Retired: 02/2001 Thomas Kevin Healy* Died: 7/12/2019 Executive Services Age: 60 Age: 68 Age: 86 Library Age: 82 Died: 6/24/2019 Luis De Guzman Died: 7/13/2018 Died: 12/9/2018 Retired: 12/2003 Victoriano Died: 8/18/2019 Carlton Wai Ming Seu Sarah Si Heung William J. Farrell* Age: 82 Parks James R. Murphy, SCL Law Dept. Cheung Choi Retirement Office Died: 8/5/2019 Age: 64 Age: 78 Age: 61 Human Services Retired: 09/1992 Archie M. Howatson* Died: 6/4/2018 Died: 7/11/2019 Died: 3/14/2019 Age: 68 Age: 91 Parks Anthony J. Wawrzycki Died: 7/13/2019 Died: 7/29/2019 Retired: 08/1993 Joseph Nolze, Parks Paulette D. Sharp, SCL Seattle Center Age: 66 Age: 64 Louise Christenson Frank Fields, Jr.*, SPU Age: 100 Age: 70 Died: 12/15/2018 Died: 7/17/2018 Age: 86 Retired: 01/1983 Died: 7/2/2019 Died: 10/28/2018 Died: 1/5/2019 Age: 88 Victoria E. Hughes Cheryl Ann Parker, SPU Eugene R. Snider* Marilyn A. Wehr Age: 66 Engineering Merle A. Connally, SCL Died: 1/28/2019 Age: 100 Age: 89 Died: 5/28/2019 Died: 10/30/2018 Retired: 07/1987 Died: 2/19/2019 Age: 74 Durlyn R. Finnie*, Health Age: 86 Lavern Parker, Police Died: 1/17/2019 Retired: 03/1999 Donnie P. John, SCL Died: 8/29/2019 Bonnie J. Wold Age: 72 Age: 65 Age: 66 Age: 72 Died: 08/14/2019 Died: 1/4/2019 Died: 2/5/2019 Died: 3/25/2019
DONATIONS TO ARSCE ARSCE Donation Application Please check appropriate box. Since ARSCE operates on a limited budget; donations Golden Contribution o Memorial o are always welcome and very much appreciated. ARSCE is a 501 (c)(3) organization. Your donation will be tax deductible within the limits established by the Internal Revenue Service. Donor’s Name ______Dept. Retired from Regular donations are noted in the “Golden Contributions” ______
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BOOK NOTES By Lorry Garratt, Library
UNSHELTERED. By Barbara Kingsolver ~ 2018 is a businessman and one of the richest men in Israel and Peter A story of a house and two families, in different centuries, becomes a top Mossad agent at the head of the country’s vital who lived in it. The magazine where Willa was an editor has espionage. But one thing they share is the love for the same folded and the college where her husband had tenure is also woman. It threatens the close family unity and invades their closed. Their successful lives have now left them floundering, critical roles, and even their very lives. especially since their Ivy League educated son has had a tragedy. This novel has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award. To fill her time, Willa investigates a previous family who lived A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DEATH. By Charles Finch ~ 2007 in their house and discovers they had many of the same troubles. An elegant mystery, murders and all, in Victorian England SENSE OF EVIL. By Kay Hooper ~ 2003 with the upstairs downstairs characters playing evenly matched A serial killer targets beautiful, successful, and blonde roles. Charles Lenox is a true gentleman, wealthy and intelligent, victims, and special agent Isabel Adams fits all criteria. She is who finds that detective work is fascinating and rewarding. one of the FBI’s top profilers and attached to a special unit of His brother and best friend is the inheritor of the family similar agents. Now she sets herself up as a target, but title and Lady Jane, a young widow and next-door she may have gotten too close without realizing neighbor, is his treasured confidante. the complete horror of this monster. A charming read full of period detail that doesn’t THE WATCHMAN. By Robert Crais ~ 2007 interfere with a really good and unexpected solution to more than one most puzzling mystery. Larkin Barkley is the ultimate spoiled rich girl, but when she is involved in a late-night traffic accident, THE SENTENCE IS DEATH. By Anthony Horowitz ~ she becomes the target of unknown assailants. She 2019 is the sole witness in a secret federal investigation, A real-life screenwriter is once again a character in but the official agencies fail to protect her and her his own novel as he works with private investigator family who then turn for help from enigmatic Joe Pike Dan Hawthorne to help solve a case which will be and his longtime friend Elvis Cole. included in Hawthorne’s autobiography. A bigtime NEVER HAVE I EVER. By Joshilyn Jackson ~ 2019 celebrity divorce lawyer has been killed by a highly priced bottle of wine broken over his head. But the A group of suburban mothers meet regularly to share puzzle is that Pryce the lawyer didn’t drink and a glass of wine and discuss the current book they are never kept alcohol in his home. The meaning of reading. They are good friends, content with their family the weapon is at the bottom of the mystery and connected lives, and their friendships. But they are not prepared for with the secrets Pryce wanted to hide. a new neighbor who, in a strange and eerie way, invades their group and their lives and lures them into a game of telling their THE SLEEPING DOLL. By Jeffrey Deaver ~ 2007 secrets, which leads to terror and eventually violence. Special agent Kathryn Dance is assisting in the breakneck THE PROMISED LAND. By Martin Fletcher ~ 2018 chase to catch serial killer and cult leader Daniel Pell who has escaped from prison and is on a killing rampage. He is clever A beautifully written saga of the German holocaust and and astute, but Dance has outwitted him before. Now his most two Jewish brothers who become important figures in the important goal is to kill her and her children. emerging Jewish state from its first threadbare beginning. Arie Contact Ms. Garratt at [email protected]
Fellowship All Over Town
Engineers’ Luncheon: Seattle Engineering Department (and City Light South End Crews and Friends: This group will SDOT & SPU) retirees meet for lunch quarterly. Call Barbara meet for breakfast at 9:00AM the first Tuesday of each month Graham @ 206.356.8606; Harvey Knizek @ 206.526.1251; at the Denny’s located on First Ave. So. and So. 148th Street. or Colleen Brown @ 206.244.6489 for information. Please Call Jack Carlson at 206-790-5022 for information. join us! METRO Retirees’ Lunch: This group meets at 11:00AM the City Light Line Crews & Friends Breakfast: This group second Tuesday of Jan., Mar., May, July, Sept., and Nov. at meets at Shay’s Restaurant, 15744 Aurora Ave. North, near the Crazy Moose Casino, 22003 66th Ave. West in Mountlake 160th on the East side of Aurora, on the first Thursday of Terrace. At 11:00AM on the second Wednesday of Feb., Apr., the month at 8:00AM. Call Bud Eickstadt at 206.362.8336 June, Aug., Oct., and Dec. The group meets at Billy Baroo’s for information. Restaurant located at 13500 Interurban Ave. So. in Tukwila. RCLEA (Retired City Light Employees’ Association) For information call Lonnie Sewell at 206.915.1415. Lunches: If you retired from City Light, you should be Another Retired Transit Group: This group meets the 1st receiving the newsletter sent out at regular intervals which Saturday of the month at the Family Pancake House located lists the dates and locations of the informal luncheons and at 238th & Aurora at 7:30AM. the more formal fall and spring luncheons. For information Old Timers Luncheon Group MTD/DAS/ESD. This group contact Jack Kelley at 206.522.0807 or go to www.rclea.net meets at 11:00AM the first Monday of the month at the Super Retired Range Service Employees meet at the Blue Star China Buffet, 15323 Westminster Way, Shoreline, WA 98133. Restaurant, 4512 Stone Way North, Seattle, at 12 Noon on Engineering Retirees’ Lunch: Engineering Dept. Field the second Wednesday of each month. Personnel Retirees meet the 1st Wednesday of the month, Seattle Transit Breakfast (North End): This group meets 10:00AM at Shay’s Restaurant at N. 160th St. & Aurora Ave. N. at Shari’s Restaurant, 15252 Aurora Ave. N., on the first in Shoreline, WA. Contact Roy Galloway at 206.362.3937 for Saturday of each month. further information. Transit Retirees (South End): Meet at the Burien Elks Lodge Parks Dept. Retirees’ Luncheons are held on the 2nd at South 140th St. and 1st Ave. South on the third Saturday Wednesday of the month at the 125th Street Grill located at of the month at 8:30AM for breakfast. Contact Al Ramey at 12255 Aurora Ave. North. We meet at 11:30AM for lunch. 206.243.8504. t t t t t Page 10 — ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019
A Life Well-Lived On a more positive note, can anyone By Joyce Dickhaut forget one of the supreme achievements of our great country that was uplifting and life changing in so many ways? JFK stood before Congress on May 25, 1961 and proposed that the US “should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Where Were You When...? the Earth.” Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit of There are events in our lifetimes, events America. And then…finally on July 20, 1969 that affect our country or the world, that are we saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, live so significant that most of us can remember on TV in grainy black and white, actually exactly where we were and what we were plant the flag of the United States of America doing when we learned of such an event. on our moon. How could anyone forget that? Who doesn’t remember where we were when, in this era of instant communications, The next event that shook the country we either heard of or saw the horrendous and endures in the memories of all who were catastrophe of September 11, 2001? alive at the time was the assassination of our glorious young president John F. Kennedy. The first event of great consequence I I remember exactly what I was doing on remember experiencing was December 7, November 22, 1963, when the original report 1941. I didn’t realize it at the time, and I of the shooting was broadcast, and then I was had no concept of how this would change glued to the TV as the entire tragic sequence my world, and for that matter, the whole of events unfolded, ending with Walter world for the next several years to come. The Cronkite’s announcement as he fought back one emotion I remember on that day in my his own tears that our president had died of childish way was extreme annoyance that all his wounds. Devastating! It seemed to me my favorite radio programs were cancelled. that our country was never quite the same. I just kept hearing the same radio message repeatedly, “The United States has been The years passed with a series of wars attacked. All military personnel are to report and political upheavals and then came the to their bases or commanding officers.” Why complicated and drawn-out drama that did they keep saying that and what could divided us as much as WWII united us. It be so important to have all my programs seemed strange that the series of hearings, cancelled? And what or where was Pearl political skirmishes and investigations Harbor and why did it matter? I was soon to could be described in one word: Watergate. find out. In 1974, after almost five years in office, President Nixon resigned in the face of As the next few years passed, the country almost certain impeachment and removal was so completely immersed in the war effort from office—the only time a U.S. president that it is almost impossible to describe it to has done so. It was the culmination of what those who have not lived through it. Every the new President Ford called the end of household had a Victory Garden, and we were “our long national nightmare.” We felt we issued ration books for food, clothing, fuel, could now take a deep breath and resume and other items essential to the war. And normalcy. Can anyone forget that TV shot of it seemed that everything in our lives was Nixon flinging up his arms in a sign of victory essential to the war. We saved paper, tin foil, as he boarded the helicopter that was taking rubber items, and so much more. What we him away from the scene of his defeat? had known as normal life was suspended for “the duration.” How I hated that term! And so, our world continued until September 11, 2001, the malignant date never For a child, a year is an eternity. Almost to be forgotten by anyone who lived through three years passed and then a ray of hope it; an attack on our own soil. I was sitting was anticipated: D-Day, the invasion of down to my morning tea and newspaper France where the evil Nazis were entrenched. about 9:00am Seattle time and idly flipped When it finally happened on June 6, 1944, on my kitchen TV to Good Morning America I listened to my bedside radio all night as when I heard the dreaded message, “We are the reporters on the beaches described bringing you a special live news report.” I what was happening on those bloody beaches could not believe my eyes and ears, but and battlefields. was stunned until I realized this was real. I As young as I was, in my memory it rushed into the bedroom where my husband was electrifying! Those events defined was sleeping, woke him, and turned on the my growing-up years. We defeated Hitler TV as we watched the second plane hit the in May 1945 and finally came the atomic second tower. Those pictures will be with bombings followed by V-J Day (Victory over me for the rest of my life. Japan) August 14, 1945. President Truman As you read this you may have a different announced the unconditional surrender of set of more recent events that are imprinted the Japanese empire. The entire country was into your consciousness. Perhaps the day ecstatic. The “duration” was over, and peace John Lennon was killed, the eruption of Mt. was here at last. St. Helens, or the day we elected our first Little did we dream that only five years black president. But we all have days that later the country would be at war again in we remember distinctly, and we remember Korea. I remember where I was on Sunday, exactly where we were and how we felt when June 25, 1950 when it was announced that they happened. They are all part of our North Korea invaded South Korea. I was own history as well as that of our country at a wedding and everyone was concerned as they pass into the history books for the that we would be at war and the young men next generations to try to understand as our would, once again, be drafted or called up generations try to understand the Civil War, from the Reserves. And it turned out that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and many of my friends were called up. The other events of the past. politicians softened the news by calling it a “police action,” but everyone knew it was Mt. St. Helens erupts May 18, 1980 another war. Joyce Dickhaut, Fleet Administration Manager, Retired ARSCE NEWS — November/December, 2019 — Page 11
Christmas Quotation
A well-known Christmas song is the inspiration for this interesting Christmas quotation. Cryptogram Cryptogram Basics: B O X Y C C D Y A G H Y T Z F N C W A G C In any type of standard cryptogram puzzle, one letter of the alphabet is substituted with another letter. The same substitution is used throughout a single puzzle. G O L T T G C N L O W L C Z G F Y L B F When you’re solving cryptograms, remember that if A = Z, it will always equal Z in that puzzle. But you should not assume that Z = A in this puzzle. It P X Y C C N O J C, G X X W Z Y C O L D N O probably does not. Each puzzle uses a different code. Have fun solving this!
Solution: G X G C H G D L O’ W A G H Y N W ‘D Z N W Y.’
~ Bing Crosby Bing ~
Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’ it make won’t Alaska
blessings, all the snow in in snow the all blessings,
an occasion to share our our share to occasion an ~ P N O U T F L C P M (1904-1977) Unless we make Christmas Christmas make we Unless
Old Timers Luncheon Group MTD/DAS/ESD/FFD/FAS Alan Brittenham Reporting
We experienced an invasion of Old-Timers at our luncheon on Monday, August 5th when we gathered, as usual, at the Super China Buffet at 15323 Westminster Way in Shoreline. Gene Lucas had done his usual stellar job of calling folks and reminding them a few days before, but this time we were all pleasantly surprised. For one thing, our most recent retiree, Mitch Shriver, out of the Car Shop at Charles Street, showed up with his wife Cindi for his first official luncheon since he pulled the plug. You can tell by the silly grins on their faces that they are still a bit overwhelmed by the feeling of being on vacation; phase one of the “Getting Used to Being Retired” process. You’ll know you’ve arrived, Mitch, when you get up in the morning with nothing to do, and by bedtime you’re not even half done! Also showing up was Donna Lopez, who we welcomed, along with Curtis Ko and Al Freeman. Al was driving that beautiful old ’57 Chevy he picked up a few years back, and Curtis has been going to Murphy’s Auction still, just like back in the day. Old habits die hard and a good deal is not one to pass up, which explains his Sprinter Van project based on a former Park Department rig that will be a motor home someday. Retirees have to stay busy to avoid winding up sitting in front of your TV waiting for the switch to flip. So that’s the thing: All of us are welcome every month, and, even if it’s been a while, we’ll still be glad to see you. Get out of the house and get some fresh air (or rain). Drop by. Just remember the first Monday of every month, and the doors open at 11am. I’m adding email addresses to our log sheet and will start sending out updates as needed. Be hungry, and the teapots never run dry. Dave Lozer joined us at the September luncheon, on the 9th because of the holiday, on his Victory Motorcycle. He’s always good for a laugh or three, if not a story or two, so it was good to see him. Gordy Hirai continued a discussion that has been going on for a while, around the question of, should we consider finding a new place to meet and eat? Some background is in order on this issue: For years we had been meeting at the Old Country Buffet in Factoria, which seemed to suit everyone. Available parking is a key requirement, of course, and reasonably priced food that is of adequate variety so that everyone who shows up can find something they like. But they went out of business, suddenly, so we moved to a different location of the same restaurant, which worked for a month, until they went out of business, too, so abruptly that we showed up for lunch one month and they were closed! That’s when Gene Lucas found the Super China Buffet close by, and we have been well fed and welcome here ever since. The basic price is very good here, also, around $11 for all you can eat, so that is a valuable consideration. They have a pretty wide variety of food, including lots of fried chicken, which keeps Gene happy, but also sushi, a Mongolian Grill option, and a much-improved dessert section with lots of hard ice cream; so they are a tough act to follow. Still, we are quite a ways north of the Ship Canal, and our members are scattered all over the map, but it seems many of the most constant attendees are currently in the South End, so the search is on for an acceptable place that might be a bit more centrally located for convenience. Any ideas from all who read this would be welcome. Send them to me at: [email protected] and I’ll put them before your fellow retirees. Just remember the three P’s: Parking, Price, and Pleasure to Eat there. We don’t want to leave anyone out, but we do want to find the most convenience for those who do attend.
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Let’s Celebrate Tuesday December 31st, 2019
ARSCE Invites You... 2019 MEETING AND PUBLICATION DATES
Tues. Nov. 12 News Deadline (Jan/Feb Issue) CHRISTMAS Wed. Nov. 13 Executive Board Meeting PARTY! Wed. Dec. 11 ARSCE Christmas Luncheon West Seattle Golf Course 4470 - 35th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA Wednesday ~ December 11th, 2019 Lunch served at noon West Seattle Golf Course / 4470 - 35th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA Fri. Dec. 13 Mail ARSCE News (Jan/Feb ‘20 issue)
Active & Retired Employees ~ You’re Invited to Attend the ARSCE Board Meetings. (Doors open at 11am) Please Feel Free to Join Us! 11:00am ~ Noon: No Host Bar & Visit with Friends Note: Calendar is subject to change by Board approval. Lunch served at Noon COST: $25.00 per person
Luscious Prime Rib feast with all the trimmings. Application for Membership: Active & Retired Seattle City Employees Plus Dessert & Coffee, Tea, or Soft Drinks. Beer & Wine available at an extra cost. New Member o Beneficiary o Address Change o Dues Payment o Donation o Reservations due by Wednesday, Dec. 4th, 2019 (Cancellations no later than 48 hours prior to the luncheon. Name______Tel. No.______Cancellation questions? Call Victoria Troisi at 425-443-3799.) Address ______Food is ordered for reservations only. Reservations must City ______State ______Zip______be made no later than December 4th, 2019. No exceptions! The restaurant manager was very firm about this request. Date Retired ______From Dept. ______Amt. Encl. ______Please make your reservations ahead of time. Thank you! If still employed with the City, indicate the number of years: ______
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Christmas Annual Dues: $15.00 (7/1-6/30) Gift Exchange If you wish to have your dues deducted from the check you receive in July, please fill out the following section for the Retirement Each attendee will bring a Office and include it with the rest of this coupon when you mail it wrapped gift, (that means to ARSCE. Or apply online at the email address below. couples bring two gifts) noting the gift’s content. Donor will Active & Retired Seattle City Employees write his/her name on the gift. Dues Deduction Authorization You must be present to receive a present. To: The Board of Administration, City of Seattle Employees’ Retirement System: The undersigned hereby authorizes the City of Seattle Employees’ Thank You! Retirement System to deduct from my retirement, beneficiary and/or disability allowance, such dues as are duly established from time to time by the Active & Retired Seattle City Employees (ARSCE). Until further written notice by me to The Retirement System Office, such deduction shall be made annually from my July allowance and shall be paid to Active & Retired Seattle City Employees, P.O. Box 75385, Seattle, WA 98175-0385. NAME(S) ______
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Please make your check or money order payable to: ARSCE Christmas Mail to: Active & Retired Seattle City Employees Luncheon; mail it with this completed reservation form. Or, you P.O. Box 75385, Seattle, WA 98175-0385 Attn: Victoria Troisi may register and pay online by going to www.arsce.org. Click on the Or Apply online at: http://arsce.org/membershipapp3.htm “Christmas Luncheon” link under “Events Calendar” December 2019.